If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."